Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, has invited Israeli Aerospace Industry (IAI) to set up ancillary units in the Hisar Aviation Hub being set up by the Haryana Government. CM Khattar, who concluded his Israel tour on Thursday, also invited the consortium of cyber security companies under Israel aviation industry to set up base in …

Israel has offered support to Haryana in the field of sustainable use of recycled water for agriculture, and cyber security. The offer was made by Dan Alluf, counselor, International Development Co-operation (MASHAV), Science and Agriculture, Embassy of Israel, in a meeting with working group of officers of the state government, constituted under Indo-Israel projects held …

India is primed to witness a bracing change as the government has successively dipped their toes into the digital stream. The programme to turn the country into a digital economy has been met with a great deal of buzz as initiatives such as digital locker, demonetisation and the successive promotion of digital wallet have opened …

The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the US Senate, a cybersecurity firm said in a report. The revelation on Friday suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 US electoral contest, is …

After German cryptographers reported flaws that makes it possible to infiltrate WhatsApp’s private group chats without admin permission, the Facebook-owned messaging platform said on Thursday its end-to-end encryption is impeccable and its over one billion users are at no data breach risk. According to a report in Wired.com, cryptographers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany …

Instruments in smartphones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability as researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that data from these sensors could be used by hackers to guess the security PIN and unlock it. Using a combination of information gathered from six different sensors found in smartphones …

Over three-fourths of organisations polled recognise cybersecurity as one of the top five business risks, but despite that most have cybersecurity budgets of less than 10 per cent of total planned expenses, a KPMG survey stated on Friday. “79 per cent organisations identified cybersecurity as one of the top five business risks,” said KPMG in …

Intensifying the fight against cyber crime, networking giant Cisco and international police organisation Interpol on Tuesday announced an agreement to share threat intelligence. The alliance will see the two organisations develop a coordinated and focused approach to data sharing, Cisco said in a statement. This not only will allow for quick threat detection around the …

Microsofts Windows security team has discovered a remote security flaw in Google Chrome that can be exploited by hackers. “Our discovery of ‘CVE-2017-5121’ indicates that it is possible to find remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in modern browsers. Chrome’s relative lack of remote code execution (RCE) mitigations means the path from memory corruption bug to exploit can …

Email users are more than twice as likely to encounter cyber threats through emails than any other malware, a new report said on Wednesday. One out of every nine users would have received a malicious email in the first half of 2017, revealed the cyber security firm Symantec’s report “Email Threats 2017”. Business email compromise …